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Gene Roddenberry - Two interviews, 1974 and 1976

by: Charles Meyerson

Publication date: 1976-02-10

Topics: Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, WPGU, Charlie Meyerson, Charles Meyerson, WPGU-FM, Phil Robinson, Jim Gesell, Bill Taylor, Nolan Hester

Language: English

Item Size: 94.7M

Two interviews with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry for WPGU-FM, Urbana.

From 1974: An in-studio interview aired at 3 p.m. on WPGU-FM, Urbana, Nov. 7, 1974. Host: Phil Robinson, with panelists Jim Gassel, Bill Taylor and Charlie Meyerson. (Edited to remove newscasts and advertisements. Unedited version here.)

From 1976: Raw audio of a phone interview with Roddenberry by Charlie Meyerson on Feb. 10, 1976, followed by the finished feature that resulted: An episode of WPGU's mini-documentary series, Probe, aired Feb. 17, 1974.

Photo by Nolan Hester for The Daily Illini, Nov. 8, 1974.